Quotable Mathematics

"At the same time, Kaufmann discovered that in developing his genetic networks, he had reinvented some of the most avant-garde work in ...

"Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random eve...

"If you take a pack of cards as it comes from the maker and shuffle it for a few minutes, all trace of the original systematic order di...

"To the untrained eye, randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster." (William Feller, "An Introduction to Probabi...

"Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe - in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; t...

"People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely ...

"One of the central problems studied by mankind is the problem of the succession of form. Whatever is the ultimate nature of reality (a...

"An equilibrium is defined to be stable if all sufficiently small disturbances away from it damp out in time. Thus stable equilibria ar...

  "Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of an...

"Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work."  (Kevin Kelly, "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines...

"When one combines the new insights gained from studying far-from-equilibrium states and nonlinear processes, along with these comp...

"Today it is no longer questioned that the principles of the analysts are the more far-reaching. Indeed, the synthesists lack two thing...